Gazette Of The United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser

BOSTON, October 29.

From France.

On Saturday, the brig Cyrus, capt. Edward Tyler, reached this port from Nantz; having passports of protection from the forts and privateers of the Republic. Joseph Woodward, Esq. who came passenger in the Cyrus, is the bearer of dispatches from the French Government; which were immediately sent on to the Secretary of State.

Mr. Woodward, furnishes the following Note, accompanied with the protectory passports.

Extract of a letter from the Minister of the Marine and the Colonies, to the principal Commissaries, dated 24th Thermidor, 6th year.

"I remark Citizens, by the correspondence of the greater part of the administrators of the ports, that the Embargo, recently laid on the American vessels, has occasioned the detention of their crews. The intentions of the government must have been badly understood to have occasioned the adoption of a measure that appears to put us in an hostile attitude towards the United States, whilst its acts indicate, on the contrary, that it desires to maintain good intelligence between the two Republics. I recommend to you therefore, Citizens, to ordain as soon as you shall receive the present, the liberation of all the Americans who may have been considered as prisoners of war, in consequence of the Embargo laid upon their vessels."

(Signed,)
E. BRUIX.

Mr. W. has also handed us the following particulars;—the public being already acquainted with the situation of our affairs in France, at the time of Mr. Gerry's departure from that country, it is only necessary to mention what has taken place since.

Mr. Dupont, late French Consul at Philadelphia, presented to the Directory a detailed memorial of the depredations of the French West-India privateers, on the American Commerce, (about the time that Mr. Gerry left Paris,) which appeared to make some impression on the minds of its members, who pretended to have been ignorant of it, until that moment—but still the Embargo was not taken off, nor our Seamen then in prison, released from their confinement.

A few days after the sailing of Mr. Gerry, a large number of New-York papers reached Paris, by way of Bordeaux, containing a great number of addresses to the President of the United States, with sundry acts and debates of Congress, which bespoke so much union of the people, wisdom and firmness of the government, that the long entertained hope of separating a free and happy people from the government of its own deliberate choice, was then given up.

About this time Doctor Logan, of Philadelphia, arrived in Paris, by the way of Hamburgh, who found his way directly to some of the Members of the Directory, and it appears by his MEMORIAL, that he confirmed what had but just began to be believed, that France had now but very few friends left in America. A few days produced the release of the American shipping and seamen, with an order to all the forts in the Republic to treat all Americans well that might arrive there; these measures were communicated to Mr. Skipwith, our Consul General in Paris, requesting that they might be communicated to the government of the United States, as soon as possible, and at his request, a letter of safe conduct or protection was granted for the brig Cyrus, to carry dispatches for the Secretary of State, of the United States.